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Bird traffic controller

By Fred Pearce

Yossi Leshem has been providing the Israeli air force with maps and forecasts of bird migration through Israeli airspace since 1983. He was the director of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel from 1991 to 1995. In 1996, he set up the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration at Latrun near Jerusalem. He has hundreds of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian schoolchildren following the birds’ progress online every day

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